I wonder... if you put the Note 7 in a bucket of water outside where it's freezing cold... what happens as the water freezes? Will the water exert enough pressure on the battery while it's expanding/freezing that the battery warms up? Will that then keep the water from freezing?
Normally, cooling is the way to fight Li-Ion thermal overruns. So all that cold might stop it before it starts.
However, at the same time, ice tends to act as insulation, increasing the chance of a thermal overrun.
So... toss up. Dunno. Perhaps the pressure would start a thermal event, and then the melting ice would cool it back down.
Pure lithium reacts with water,
There's almost no Litihium metal involved, so that's not a factor with Li-Ion batteries.
So you'd probably get something between a phone in a small puddle surrounded by ice and the ice blowing up with smoke coming out.
I agree. Well, except for the actual "blowing up" part.
I hope none of my friends or family that are flying for the holidays are on a plane with one of these idiots.
Judging from the past twenty plus years of Li-Ion in-cabin fire history, the worst that'll happen is their plane'll get diverted because of smoke. Or not.
It'd be no different than all the previous Li-Ion fires in passenger cabins, including the ones already caused by iPhones.
The FAA is okay with up to 160 Watt hour batteries in the cabin. The Note 7 battery is about 18 Watt hours. Nowhere even close to the FAA risk limit. Their ban was more political and/or caused by airlines not wanting to spend extra money diverting/cleaning.
Hint: laptop fires are much more risky, because they have much bigger batteries. And yet even their 60+ Watt hour batteries are considered below the risk limit.
Of course I read. The headline says that Verizon is pushing the update -- but only after the holidays. So the way it reads is that they're going to try to make all the sales they can during the holiday period.
Your posts make no sense. What "sales" are you talking about?
